A depressed father murdered his family before hanging himself in a rented room of a house in Sichon district of Nakhon Si Thammarat province, Sichon police said this morning.
The 40-year-old father Phaisarl Yossuk, deeply affected by his runaway wife, poisoned his 14-year-old daughter, 8-year-old son, and 4-year-old daughter in the bedroom, and then hanged himself to a beam.
Neighbours told Si Chon station police that two days earlier, Phaisarl’s wife ran a way from home leaving her family behind.
The husband was deeply depressed for the burden to take care of three children, and the debts he owed, they told policy.